| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...Those flowers made of light I The lilacs where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburnum on his birthday — The tree is living yet ! I remember....remember Where I was used to swing; And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing: My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now,... | |
| Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...Those flowers made of light ! The lilacs whore the robin built, And where my brother set The liburuam on his birth-day — The tree is living yet ! I remember, I remember, When I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's poetry - 1854 - 264 pages
...roses red and white, The violets and the lily cups — Those flowers made of light ; The laburnum, on his birthday, — The tree is living yet ! I remember,...was used to swing, And thought the air would rush afresR To swallows on the wing ; My spirits flew in feathers, then, That is so heavy now, And the summer... | |
| Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1854 - 424 pages
...Those flowers made of light ! The lilacs where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburnum on his birth-day, — The tree is living yet ! I remember,...remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...Those flowers made of light ! The lilacs where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburnum on his birth-day, — The tree is living yet ! I remember,...remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now,... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...robins built, And where my brother set The laburnum, on his birth-day — The tree is living yet ! 1 remember, I remember, Where I was used to swing, And thought the air would rush as fresh As swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers, then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools... | |
| Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...Those flowers made of light ! The lilacs where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburnum on his birth-day, — The tree is living yet ! I remember,...remember, Where I was used to swing ; And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing. My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now,... | |
| English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...robin built, And where my brother set The laburnum on his birth -day, — The tree is living yet ! 1 remember, I remember, Where I was used to swing ; And thought 'the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing : My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now,... | |
| Collection - 1856 - 120 pages
...Those flowers made of light ; The lilacs where the robins built, And where my brother set The laburnum, on his birth-day — The tree is living yet ! I remember, I remember, The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender spires, Were close against the sky ! It... | |
| Noah Webster - Readers (Elementary) - 1856 - 168 pages
...flow-ers made of light; The li-lacs where the rob-ins built, And where my broth-er set The la-bur-num on his birth-day— The tree is liv-ing yet! I re-mem-ber, I re-mem-ber, The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slen-der spires Were close a-gainst the sky ! It... | |
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